Tuomas Tynkkynen
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If nixos-install is run on a machine with `nix.distributedBuilds = true` the installation will fail at some point like this: Died at /nix/store/4frhrl31cl7iahlz6vyvysy5dmr6xnh3-nix-1.10/libexec/nix/build-remote.pl line 115, <STDIN> line 1. This is due to `nix.distributedBuilds` setting NIX_BUILD_HOOK=/nix/store/.../build-remote.pl in the global environment, which then gets confused in the minimal chroot created by nixos-install. To avoid these kinds of issues with build hooks, just disable them in the chroot.
Nixpkgs is a collection of packages for the Nix package manager. It is periodically built and tested by the hydra build daemon as so-called channels. To get channel information via git, add nixpkgs-channels as a remote:
% git remote add channels git://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs-channels.git
For stability and maximum binary package support, it is recommended to maintain
custom changes on top of one of the channels, e.g. nixos-14.12 for the latest
release and nixos-unstable for the latest successful build of master:
% git remote update channels
% git rebase channels/nixos-14.12
For pull-requests, please rebase onto nixpkgs master.
NixOS linux distribution source code is located inside
nixos/ folder.
- NixOS installation instructions
- Documentation (Nix Expression Language chapter)
- Manual (How to write packages for Nix)
- Manual (NixOS)
- Continuous package builds for unstable/master
- Continuous package builds for 14.12 release
- Continuous package builds for 15.09 release
- Tests for unstable/master
- Tests for 14.12 release
- Tests for 15.09 release
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